Despair
| Filename | despair-16.hqx |
|---|---|
| Size | 298.2 KB (305364 bytes) |
| Architecture | PowerPC |
| Downloads | 14 |
Despair is Lloyd Burchill's darkly comic 1997 pestilence simulator for the classic Mac, a black-and-white sandbox in which you wreak your wrath on dozens of tiny helpless computer people. It is less a game than a toy: a stage for orchestrated cruelty against pixelated victims.
Plagues at Your Fingertips
Your arsenal includes diseased sheep, neutron bombs, volcanoes, fire, ice, and lightning. People fall from above and you place objects that kill them in increasingly inventive ways, with the satisfaction coming from staging the perfect chain of disasters.
A Toy More Than a Game
There is no real win condition. Despair is built for short, gleeful sessions of experimentation, closer in spirit to SimCity's destruction menu than to a structured strategy title.
Compatibility
The 68k binary runs on System 6.x through Mac OS 9, with crisp black-and-white graphics. Sound is silent under Mac OS 9 but the simulation otherwise plays cleanly.
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